Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:54:48 +0200 schrieb Xavier Chantry <chantry.xavier@xxxxxxxxx>: > Heh cmus is probably my preferred player now so I ought to defend it. > > Too complicated, seriously ? The only command I ever need is the > initial one to add my music directory : > # add files, short for ':add ~/music' > :a ~/music :add command: As I said complicated vi like commands. In MOC you have a file and directory list on the left and a play list on the right side. You just need to move the selection bar with the cursor keys and press a for add to add a file or a directory recursively to the play list. And to remove a song from the playlist you just need to press d for delete. Toggling between the two lists is possible with tab. Btw., I'm not a friend of those libraries. I organize my audio files on my hard disk with directories and subdirectories. One directory for the interpreter and one subdirectory for the album. With those libraries I usually have chaos and have much more problems finding my files, because they don't work correctly and/or the tags are not filled correctly and consistently. > After that, all you need is 3 keys : space to expand an artist and > view the albums, enter to play what you want, tab to switch between > album view and track view if you want a particular track. > > By the way, in the main/default mode, you don't see directory, you see > artist/albums from tags. > There are 7 views in cmus. Press keys 1-7 to change active > view. Library view (1) > > And these 5 shortcuts can be useful too : > x player-play > c player-pause > v player-stop > C toggle continue > s toggle shuffle In MOC: Enter play p pause s stop n next b back S toggle shuffle Somehow much more intuitive, isn't it? > You cannot pretend you want keyboard controls, and not open the man > page to learn the few keys you need :) I read the man page. But in MOC you just press h to toggle between the player and a quick help about the shortcuts. MOC has a man page, too, but not for the shortcuts. It's more for infos about configuration or using it with lirc. And MOC has a progress bar, shows the file format, the bitrate and some other infos. I don't know if cmus has them, but MOC has themes. Heiko
